Latest 'Pacman' suspension costs Titans fifth-round pick

The draft pick that kept on taking took one final bite out of the Tennessee Titans on Tuesday, when Adam “Pacman” Jones was suspended again by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.

Jones, now with the Dallas Cowboys, was involved in a skirmish with one of his team-assigned bodyguards last week and was suspended for a minimum of four games with a suspension that was termed indefinite by the commissioner. According to reports, Jones’ situation will be up for review after the Cowboys play at Washington on Nov. 16.

With Jones suspended again, the Titans will forfeit a fifth-round pick in the 2009 draft to the Cowboys. Had Jones been able to make it through the 2008 season without being suspended again, the Titans, who acquired a fourth-round pick in 2008 that they used on receiver Lavelle Hawkins, would have also received Dallas’ sixth-round pick next season.

The Titans had no comment Tuesday regarding the latest mess with Jones that cost them a draft pick for next season.

Jones was not charged in the latest incident that occurred at the Joule Hotel in Dallas, but it marked the 13th time in his troubled NFL career that police had been called to investigate a matter involving him. The first 12 of those incidents, including six arrests, all came while he was with the Titans.

“We respect and support the decision of the commissioner,” Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said in a statement that appeared on NFL.com. “I regret that this issue has brought negative attention to the Cowboys and the NFL.

“We move forward with a very clear knowledge as to what the process will be for a possible re-instatement. Adam is well aware of where he stands and what he has to do.”

Jones was not charged in the latest incident that occurred at the Joule Hotel in Dallas, but it marked the 13th time in his troubled NFL career that police had been called to investigate a matter involving him. The first 12 of those incidents, including six arrests, all came while he was with the Titans.

Goodell, on NFL.com, called Jones’ latest incident, “a disturbing pattern of behavior and clearly inconsistent with the conditions I set for your continued participation in the NFL.”

The incident apparently involved alcohol, something that, according to reports, could be a violation of Jones’ three-year probation agreement he reached regarding a felony assualt charge in Georgia.

Tennessee took Jones with the sixth pick in the 2005 draft, and he started for two seasons before he was suspended for the entire 2007 season by Goodell in April of that year for an accumulation of incidents, that included his involvement in a Las Vegas strip club fight that escalated into a triple-shooting, plus two 2006 arrests in Georgia that he failed to report to the Titans. The City Paper uncovered details of those arrests as they first came to light more than a year after the incidents.

The Titans eventually gave Jones permission to seek a trade in February 2008, and a deal with the Cowboys was finally completed during draft weekend in April. He was finally reinstated by Goodell on Aug. 28.